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Bk. YIII. Ch. II.
CATHEDRAL AT GERONA.
489
Of about the same age (1401) is the great cathedral o£ Seville, the
largest and in sorne respects the grandest of Mediæval cathedrals.
Its plan can, however, hardiy be said to be Gothic, as it was erected
952. Interior of Cathedral at Gerona, looking East. (From Street.)
on the site of the Mosque which was cleared away to make room for
it, and was of exactly the same dimensions in plan (Woodcut No. 954).
It consists of a parallelogram 415 ft. by 298, exclusive of the sepulchral
chapel behind the altar, which is a cinque-cento addition. It thus
covers about 124,000 sq. ft. of ground, more than a third in excess of
CATHEDRAL AT GERONA.
489
Of about the same age (1401) is the great cathedral o£ Seville, the
largest and in sorne respects the grandest of Mediæval cathedrals.
Its plan can, however, hardiy be said to be Gothic, as it was erected
952. Interior of Cathedral at Gerona, looking East. (From Street.)
on the site of the Mosque which was cleared away to make room for
it, and was of exactly the same dimensions in plan (Woodcut No. 954).
It consists of a parallelogram 415 ft. by 298, exclusive of the sepulchral
chapel behind the altar, which is a cinque-cento addition. It thus
covers about 124,000 sq. ft. of ground, more than a third in excess of